Customs self-regulation can boost national revenues

Kenya suffers impaired tax and business revenues and higher consumer prices as importers consistently and systematically incur huge extra demurrage charges on slow clearance.

Indeed, the hold-ups are so severe that studies have found many importers have been compelled to gain mastery of the clearing process in order to secure their goods, although the mass of regulations, both at home and in other countries, spans a huge area outside their core business.